Wandering and ‘sealed intact’

Elegant alley-like Acorn Street on Boston’s Beacon Hill.

“All day all over the city every person

Wanders a different city, sealed intact

And haunted as the abandoned subway stations

Under the city. Where is my alley doorway?’’

— From “The Day Dreamers,’’ by Robert Pinsky (born 1940), an American poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. This poem is set in Boston, where Pinsky teaches at Boston University.

Old MBTA (formerly MTA) streetcar.